St. Genevieve-of-the-Pines Guestbook, ORG.7012
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- St. Genevieve-of-the-Pines Guestbook
- Call Number
- ORG.7012
- Creator
- St. Genevieve-of-the-Pines (Asheville, N.C.)
- Date
- 1917 - 1922
- Extent
- 0.010 cubic feet
- Repository
- Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], ORG.7012, St. Genevieve-of-the-Pines Guestbook, State Archives of North Carolina, Western Regional Archives, Asheville, NC, USA.
Collection Overview
1 guestbook
Biographical/Historical
Hillside Convent was founded in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1908 by the Sisters
of Christian Education, a Catholic order. Non-denominational day instruction was available
to children ages 6-13. In the early years, the faculty was European-born and courses
in French and German were taught by native speakers. Because of the school's popularity,
classes were first held at 48 Starnes Avenue, but later moved to 74 Main Street to
accommodate additional students. In 1910, the Victoria Inn on Victoria Drive was purchased.
The acquisition allowed Hillside Convent to expand further and by 1911, in addition
to the day school, St. Genevieve's College, offered secondary education to young ladies
ages 14-18 by boarding or day school.
By 1912, the school was known as St. Genevieve Academy. Instruction, for day or boarding
students, was divided as follows: The Preparatory, for boys and girls to age 13; The
Academy, which corresponded to high school; and The College, which offered an additional
four years of study that led to degrees. Later the school was known by the fashionable
moniker St. Genevieve of the Pines. A special two-year course of study, a lycee, was
available in French.
Gibbons Hall School for Boys began in 1949, when a new facility was built for male
students who took day classes. However, after the Sisters of Christian Education ceased
funding for the schools, a new co-educational St. Genevieve-Gibbons Hall was created
in the early 1970s. It offered day classes from kindergarten to ninth grade. By the
mid-1980s, another merger took place when St. Genevieve-Gibbons Hall School combined
with Asheville Country Day School to form Carolina Day School.
Today, Carolina Day School serves students from kindergarten through 12th grade from
their campus on Hendersonville Road, the site of Asheville Country Day School.